Blockchain+Investment+China -- By Carnegie Mellon University Alumni

About Blockchain+Investment+China -- By Carnegie Mellon University Alumni

Content:
Discussion of blockchain and US-China cross-boarder topics in 2018, by Carnegie Mellon University Alumni.

Agenda:
* Elaine Shi - Thunderella: Blockchains with Optimistic Instant Confirmation

* Han Ye - Blockchain and Crypto Investing

* Hong Xue - Challenges and Opportunities in High Tech Investment - a Comparison between China and U.S. market.

* Kai Mai - Opportunities in China's raising market; An introduction to CMU Shanghai Alumni Association

Profiles of Guest Speakers:

Elaine Shi

* CMU CS PhD

* Scientist at Thunder Token(thundertoken.com)

* Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University

* Co-founder and co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Contracts (IC3)

* Recipient of the Packard Fellowship, ONR YIP Award, NSF Career Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and Google Faculty Awards

* Recipient of an NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Award, an ASPLOS Best Paper Award, and various other best paper awards

* Wrote the first academic research paper on both Bitcoin and decentralized smart contracts, first to teach smart contract programming

Han Ye

* CMU eBiz Master

* Google Engineer

* experienced investor in blockchain and crypto

Hong Xue

* CMU Tepper MBA

* Partner at Cybernaut Investment's Silicon Valley office

* His investment focuses on B2b service(big data, cloud service, security, AI, robotics) as well as medicare technology. He has invested in companies in the US and China, including ObEN, ScaleFlux, Kateeva, CaiCloud, LeanFM, CyberFend (acquired by Akamai) and Virtriod (acquired by Magic Leap)

* has more than 20 years of experience across engineering, product management, business development, and venture capital investment. He serves as a mentor and advisor at Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, Singularity University SU Labs and multiple start-up companies in Silicon Valley.

Kai Mai

* CMU Software Engineering master

* President of CMU Network Shanghai Chapter(CMU上海校友会)

* Co-president of Berkeley Chinese Alumni International Association Shanghai Chapter.

* VP of Product & Engineering for ALO7.com, leveraging AI+EduTech+big data to build next-generation products, platform & services to power digital curriculum content publishing, blended learning and virtual classroom learning for private K12 English language learning institutions in China.